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now 50 years after the march on washington, new civil rights leaders descend on the lincoln memorial where martin luther king, jr. once told us he had a dream. >> come on, let's go! >>> the fast-moving wildfire that has consumed 165 square miles has entered yosemite national park. and having doubled in size in just one day, it's now bearing down on thousands of structures. >>> she was tried, convicted and monday she'll be back in
now 50 years after the march on washington, new civil rights leaders descend on the lincoln memorial where martin luther king, jr. once told us he had a dream. >> come on, let's go! >>> the fast-moving wildfire that has consumed 165 square miles has entered yosemite national park. and having doubled in size in just one day, it's now bearing down on thousands of structures. >>> she was tried, convicted and monday she'll be back in
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have a great weekend. >>> coming up, the biggest guessing game in washington. who will replace this man? that's the feds chaer. you cannot believe the politics niend behind choosing his imbroimt. >>> an alarming security flaw makes this scenario possible. cnn's laurie segal has more. laurie? >> hey, christine. smart tvs are in living rooms. here at this hacker's convention we've spoken to a lot of folks and they say there are major vulnerabilities. check it out. what's eye opening here. you watch tv but with this hack, your tv can watch you. show us how it works. >> one of the things we're able to do with the tv platform is abuse the browser where we could gain access to the camera built into the tv and what we can prove here is that with a little bit of extra code we can turn the camera on in your browser. >> wow. >> and while this is evident to you here where we've designed it that way, we can do it invisibly and have it run behind the web page you're looking at. >> what this means is i could be sitting here watching tv from my bedroom and you could be anywhe
have a great weekend. >>> coming up, the biggest guessing game in washington. who will replace this man? that's the feds chaer. you cannot believe the politics niend behind choosing his imbroimt. >>> an alarming security flaw makes this scenario possible. cnn's laurie segal has more. laurie? >> hey, christine. smart tvs are in living rooms. here at this hacker's convention we've spoken to a lot of folks and they say there are major vulnerabilities. check it out. what's...
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rehear all these plans out of washington. almost all of them go nowhere because it requires democrats in congress to agree and actually pass something. this would be the department of education, which is already collecting this kind of data from colleges, basically putting this into a format that allows you to compare schools. what it will do is make consumers better shoppers for college. so you will have more tools that will help you figure out, where do you get the best return on your investment? you said that before, i think that's exactly the way people need to be thinking about college education. it's an investment. would you invest your retirement savings in something if you had no idea what the return was? you wouldn't. >> i think a lot of families don't think about it early enough. it's about four years we showed you the numbers, so for four years in a row, you would buy a new car. you would go insane if you had to buy a new car four years in a row. there are also kids buying mercedes when they can only afford to get
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. >> so a washington problem and you think it would get better if they would get their act together. i'm worried about the jobs part-time jobs, low wage and public sector jobs. one person described this as a bartender economy. is that what it is supposed to look like? can we keep america strong and if we are the driver for the world are these the kind of jobs we're creating? >> no. >> that's not what a recovery should look like. we are capable of so much more. it's not just about the now and here, it's also about the fact that most americans feel, for the first time, that their kids generation will be worse off than this. two things that need to happen. one is at the macro level. washington needs to act on the three problems we have, insufficient demand, insufficient structure reforms, and we have to remove some debt issues. at the micro level we have to power and enable incredible talent. this is about retooling and retraining. >> mark, i know you really want to jump in there. last word. >> i think that one of the things, this is a long term trend. the loss of good paying jobs was a
. >> so a washington problem and you think it would get better if they would get their act together. i'm worried about the jobs part-time jobs, low wage and public sector jobs. one person described this as a bartender economy. is that what it is supposed to look like? can we keep america strong and if we are the driver for the world are these the kind of jobs we're creating? >> no. >> that's not what a recovery should look like. we are capable of so much more. it's not just...
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let's go to washington. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> grab your helmet and -- they are literally running out of firefighters. some of the most cherished and protected land in all the land burning out of control, as wildfire spending tops $1 billion for the year, and officials ask canada for more manpower, and breaking news on the lead, the national security agency now admitting it spied on ordinary americans, but say it was only a mistake, a mistake that happened tens of thousands of time. >>> plus she stood between a gunman and another potential newtown. we'll hear from the bookkeeper who talked a man out of possibly committing mass murder. >>> welcome to "the lead." we'll begin with a frightening indicator of what firefighters are up against, as wildfires leave behind scorched earth. in idaho the threat level was raised to the highest level for the first time in five years. resources are stretched so thin there that the military and even international firefighters could be called in to
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, the historic march on washington. and one of the men who didn't speak on that day, but he was will and he was one who helped organize the 1963 march on washington was the reverend joseph lowery. he is known today as the dean of civil rights. i got a chance to ask lowery about his memories of the march and his thoughts on the movement 50 years later. >> it was a beautiful experie e experience, black and white. we estimated maybe a fourth or more were white people, then we had brown people, red people, yellow people, and of course black people. and they came from all parts of the country. >> do you remember where you were in that crowd near that stage? >> no, i've tried to find myself in several pictures, i haven't found myself yet. but i know i was there. we must not forget the message of the march. and that's why we're going back to not just repeat but to continue what we started in 1963. the battle is not over. the song has not ended. we've come a long way. as a matter of fact, in the 1980s, i wrote a speech called "
, the historic march on washington. and one of the men who didn't speak on that day, but he was will and he was one who helped organize the 1963 march on washington was the reverend joseph lowery. he is known today as the dean of civil rights. i got a chance to ask lowery about his memories of the march and his thoughts on the movement 50 years later. >> it was a beautiful experie e experience, black and white. we estimated maybe a fourth or more were white people, then we had brown...
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she's in washington. hi, emily. >> victor and brianna, two separate events happening right now. 21 u.s. embassies and consulates will be closed on saturday. particularly in the middle east and north africa. it's a sign of a threat that state department officials are taking very seriously. >> reporter: nearly one year ago, americans saw what happens when terrorists attack a u.s. diplomatic compound. in benghazi, four americans died including a u.s. ambassador. officials say they tracked the chatter coming out of yemen for weeks. and then it changed over the past few days. more of it. enough that key members of congress were briefed about the threat. >> obviously, it's serious enough that we're taking concrete steps to make sure that our personnel overseas are safe. >> reporter: the state department has taken the unusual step of issuing a worldwide travel alert to americans abroad. the action is clear. nearly two dozen embassies will close on sunday. and those closings could stretch into the week. officials
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barbara starr is live for us in washington with that new information. barbara, what do you have? >> well, fredricka, u.s. intelligence had been watching yemen for weeks, if not months, watching a growing series of threa threats, potential threats in yemen. that's not surprising. that's always been a tough neighborho neighborhood. but it was within the last two weeks that the u.s. intelligence community began to understand, come into possession if you will of an intercepted message among senior al qaeda operatives that indicated planning was under way, possibly the final stages of planning, we're told, for an attack either in yemen, middle east, or north africa. we've actually been asked by an obama administration official not to go into a lot of detail about all of this because it is so sensitive, so serious, it could put things at risk. intercepts are some of the most critical that the u.s. intelligence gathers. what are intercepts? it could be a cell phone conversation, website posting, chat room, a courier message. there's any number of ways that the u.s. would come to have kn
barbara starr is live for us in washington with that new information. barbara, what do you have? >> well, fredricka, u.s. intelligence had been watching yemen for weeks, if not months, watching a growing series of threa threats, potential threats in yemen. that's not surprising. that's always been a tough neighborho neighborhood. but it was within the last two weeks that the u.s. intelligence community began to understand, come into possession if you will of an intercepted message among...
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last year we were trying to watch egypt country code 20 and we typed in code 202 and watched washington, d.c. and didn't realize it. the only thing worse is being competent. how is the nsa defending this? >> they say none of this was intentional. that is always the defense that they have. they say the volume of data that they are collecting, millions and millions of e-mails and internet traffic that goes through these fiber optic wires that they are monitoring. and they say when you are collecting this volume of data looking for so to speak the needles in the hay stack that there will be mistakes made. that is what their defense is. we screwed up but we didn't intend to. and this is what this judge was so upset about. he said essentially in october 2011 he came down very hard on them and said you have been misrepresenting what you said you were going to be doing. >> and before you go "wall street journal" today says the nsa can reach about 75% of domestic internet traffic. forget whether they should be doing it, shouldn't they be able to watch 100%? >> that does raise the question. this
last year we were trying to watch egypt country code 20 and we typed in code 202 and watched washington, d.c. and didn't realize it. the only thing worse is being competent. how is the nsa defending this? >> they say none of this was intentional. that is always the defense that they have. they say the volume of data that they are collecting, millions and millions of e-mails and internet traffic that goes through these fiber optic wires that they are monitoring. and they say when you are...
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to washington. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >>> imagine a fire the size of denver. that's how big the beaver creek wildfire is right now. i'm jake tapper and this is "the lead." the national lead began with a bolt of lightning. 12 days later, 1,000 acres in idaho are toast. that's only one are nine fires in the state threatening thousands of homes. the world lead. his was a pinnacle of the arab spring movement. many waited so long to see hosni mubarak in prison. >> and a football star with a scholarship on the horizon but he went in to make a tackle and never got up again. we'll talk about his coach and ask what went so terribly wrong? i'm jake tapper. welcome to "the lead." we'll begin with the national lead. you might think volcanos are erupting over the horizon. this is not the pacific room. this is smack dab in the middle of idaho. right now nine wildfires are burning across the state. this is the biggest one, the beaver creek fire, 1,000 acres and growing. 2,200 homes are under a mandatory evacuation. sun valley is a ski area, some homes owned by actors. beth l
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why do you think -- that's the thing i don't understand about the climate in washington these days is that people want to have debates on television and elsewhere but then you want to throw the people that start the debates in jail. >> you have been involved in this a long time. here's the dilemma i face. as a journalist all my life, i'm looking at this and thinking this is brilliant investigative i have journalism by glenn. when it comes to edward snowden, i'm asking where does the line get drawn? what you can't have is a license for every person who has access or authorization to classified material spewing it in to the public either on a women. you can -- on a whim. you can't have that. >> which part do you not want to talk about. which document that has come out don't you want to talk about. >> i suppose it is the specifics of the programs. do you feel comfort, as an american citizen, that the enemy potentially knows too much about what the american government can and can't do? >> i can tell you, i have been an investigative reporter a long time and almost always the government sa
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you allow this surveillance without limits, it will be wildly abused and i think that's why even in washington these stories are making such an impact. >> glen, stay with me. i want to bring in james risen, a prize winning journalist for "the new york times" a federal appeals court ruled he must testify in the case against jeffrey sterling, charged of leaking secrets to disrupt iran's nuclear weapons program. he can't discuss specifics of that case and jeffrey toobin. james risen, what do you make of his latest exposure by edward snowden in terms of the kind of documents we're talking about? >> it's really an interesting story and adds to what is developed that shows the extent of the nsa's growth as a, you know, kind of the infrastructure of the state that's grown really since 9/11. i think this is all an extension of what began under the bush add menstruation and then was kind of coded in the amendments act in 2008 and the patriot act and you're seeing kind of growth from there, you know, all directions of the exploitation of what they call in silicon valley, big data. >> jeffrey toobin, how
you allow this surveillance without limits, it will be wildly abused and i think that's why even in washington these stories are making such an impact. >> glen, stay with me. i want to bring in james risen, a prize winning journalist for "the new york times" a federal appeals court ruled he must testify in the case against jeffrey sterling, charged of leaking secrets to disrupt iran's nuclear weapons program. he can't discuss specifics of that case and jeffrey toobin. james...
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marty mangiello tells "the washington post" he used to sneak healthy alternatives for cream and cheese into low-fat meals. he once got called out by then first lady hillary clinton for serving her husband too many fatty foods. if you think it's bad for a chef to deceive a sitting president, to that i say it depends on what the meaning of is is. i turn you over to jessica yellin, who is filling in for wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> and a demand for an immediate investigation into claims that the syrian government launched a chemical weapons attack on more than a thousand civilians. >> plus, disturbing new details emerging about the suspect behind the murder of a australian native. and one of the queen's prize swans
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i want to bring in wolf bit zer and jake tapper in washington. i asked about the effect of what the president said on the ground there and ite's he nonot clear, did he go farther than we expected? >> i didn't expect he would announce a cutoff in military aid $1.3 billion a year to egypt. that -- certainly he's holding out that possibility down the road. he didn't say there was a coup. he said there was military intervention that resulted in the removal of morsi as the president of egypt. but he didn't go so far as to say there was a coup. he didn't announce a break in the assistance to egypt. he announced suspension, postponement, or actual he used the word cancellation of the joint military exercise scheduled for next month called bright star. hundreds and hundreds of egyptian and u.s. troops were scheduled to train. it accepted sends a message. he said further steps would take place if there was no movement to do the right thing from his perspective. so he's trying to take this middle ground hoping that it will result in some sort of conciliato
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she is in washington. hi, emily. >> reporter: victor and brianna, one of the unusual aspects of the u.s. deciding to close so many embassies and consulates was that it came with a specific date attached, sunday. now that action is closely watched to see if there will be a terrorist reaction. >> out of an abundance of of caution -- >> reporter: first, the warnings. now, the waiting. u.s. embassies and consulates across the middle east, north africa and south asia are closed sunday in case terrorist threats turn into attacks. the move came after officials picked up increasing chatter from al qaeda in yemen where multiple sources tell cnn an attack plan could be in its final stages. >> these are numbers i can't go into, other than the fact that there definitely is planned a very enormous attack, a catastrophic-type attack. that's probably the best way to describe it. and i can't really go any further than that. >> reporter: the threat is considered credible, though ambiguous. it could target u.s. or western t
she is in washington. hi, emily. >> reporter: victor and brianna, one of the unusual aspects of the u.s. deciding to close so many embassies and consulates was that it came with a specific date attached, sunday. now that action is closely watched to see if there will be a terrorist reaction. >> out of an abundance of of caution -- >> reporter: first, the warnings. now, the waiting. u.s. embassies and consulates across the middle east, north africa and south asia are closed...
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. >> as president obama breaks his silence, does egypt really care what washington thinks? i'm brooke baldwin. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> a trainer murdered in the middle of a class. why his past may provide clues. >>> plus, coffee's wake-up call. a new study shows how the brew could be deadly. >>> and a paralympic committee tells a swimmer she can't compete because she's not disabled enough. we're on the case. >>> and here we go. good to see you. i'm brooke baldwin. want to begin with the biggest story in the world right now. egypt.
. >> as president obama breaks his silence, does egypt really care what washington thinks? i'm brooke baldwin. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> a trainer murdered in the middle of a class. why his past may provide clues. >>> plus, coffee's wake-up call. a new study shows how the brew could be deadly. >>> and a paralympic committee tells a swimmer she can't compete because she's not disabled enough. we're on the case....
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you hear from washington this is serious and credible. they're trying to walk that line. they're noting the threat is not considered specific as to this embassy or this consulate, but it was specific enough to make them believe the embassy and consulates are the targets. it was all pointed out to me that remember too we have closed a lot of these places. the consulates they are most worried about because they are the least fortified. jordan and saudi arabia, they are troops on the ground. there are others that they are more worried about. >> what i keep hearing from folks on the hill is that the administration is doing exactly what it should be doing. there is no double standard about whether the public should be informed about what is credible and real. that is what they are doing this time. people on the hill say it is better that we know about this and tell the public about this. >> they don't want lines outside embassies for passports of visas. >> you tip whoever it is off that you're on to them. >> by tipping them off, you might tip them off on how the u.s. collectin
you hear from washington this is serious and credible. they're trying to walk that line. they're noting the threat is not considered specific as to this embassy or this consulate, but it was specific enough to make them believe the embassy and consulates are the targets. it was all pointed out to me that remember too we have closed a lot of these places. the consulates they are most worried about because they are the least fortified. jordan and saudi arabia, they are troops on the ground. there...
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he's an analyst for the washington institute here. he got access because he worked for a charity that he and assad's wife, osma assad ran. in this situation they say bashar al assad has badly miscalculated. he got advice from people who told him that president obama would not enforce his red line against chemical weapons use and a huge part of this mi miscalculation is driven by assad. he's partly delusional. they believe they're not doing anything wrong, that it's outside forces, namely the u.s. and israel setting them up. i spoke with andrew tabor. he's an analyst who's a handful of westerners who got access. here's what he had to say about bashar al assad's personality. >> bashar al assad, unlike his father, is quite erratic. he's quite moody. he goes from one side to the other, bouts of rationality and irrationality. that confounded all of our attempts to deal with bashar over the years. >> he couldn't say whether he thinks assad is bipolar or not. even those close to him find it difficult to read him. his calculations in the curr
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for more on how the president's comments will play in washington we bring in john king. good morning. >> good morning. >> we took two beats on the nsa with the president, asking whether or not he feels he knows everything going on, whether he is confident in what he says about the way the nsa conducts business. any concern that the president exposed himself now and if more revelations come out, hurts him? >> you could see that in the caution in his answer and him saying now we're trying to work with congress on the transparency issue. they're working on that because they've been embarrassed by the public disclosures. at the beginning when this came out the the president said no one is listening to your phone calls. he got over the skis because we found some examples maybe not listening to phone calls but the violations were more than what the president indicated earlier. you can see the caution in his voice and body language there. now he has to work with the congress on that. that's what he striking. look at his eyes, face, his tone when talking about the nsa opposed to
for more on how the president's comments will play in washington we bring in john king. good morning. >> good morning. >> we took two beats on the nsa with the president, asking whether or not he feels he knows everything going on, whether he is confident in what he says about the way the nsa conducts business. any concern that the president exposed himself now and if more revelations come out, hurts him? >> you could see that in the caution in his answer and him saying now...
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>> brianna, i can tell you that when members of congress return to washington next month, they won't have much time to avert a government shutdown, as opponents of the health care law see it that as the time to strike. >> gentlemen, thank you for sharing your views. >> this town hall features senator ted cruz was practically a pep rally, with conservatives shouten down a few liberal protesters, and cheering on the tea party darling's plan to defund obama care. >> number one, i agree with them. they should have health care, and obama care is causing more and more people struggling to climb the commission ladder to lose their health care. >> they're eyeing two dates looming on the calendar, september 30th when the government runs out of money, and the next day, october 1st, when new marketplaces open for business. detunneled the health care law -- >> there's a game of chicken going on, and i'm fairly confident if the republican lawmakers go out and make the case to the american people that obama care is hurting them, costing them jobs, we can go out and win this fight. >> not all repub
>> brianna, i can tell you that when members of congress return to washington next month, they won't have much time to avert a government shutdown, as opponents of the health care law see it that as the time to strike. >> gentlemen, thank you for sharing your views. >> this town hall features senator ted cruz was practically a pep rally, with conservatives shouten down a few liberal protesters, and cheering on the tea party darling's plan to defund obama care. >> number...
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cnn's athena jones is live in washington with more. what's he saying? >> good morning, kate, this man faced threats of violence, one woman spit in his face and walked away and that's just some of the reaction he's gotten to this act that offended a lot of people. >> i didn't do this to do any hating on anyone, i did it to be funny. i did it to be a joke. >> reporter: an uproar. >> president obama, hey, i know i'm a clown. he's just running around acting like one, doesn't know he is one. >> reporter: this is the rodeo clown whose act mocking president obama ignited controversy, abact some called racist. his bit got him banned from the missouri state fair for life. now he's talking to kctv about the controversy. >> i've had somebody threaten to run me over, one of them wanted to burn the house down. this clown bit has been around for generations and i didn't think anything more of it than what we've done 15 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago, when we've done it with bush and clinton and ronald reagan. >> reporter: some conservative talk show hosts who c
cnn's athena jones is live in washington with more. what's he saying? >> good morning, kate, this man faced threats of violence, one woman spit in his face and walked away and that's just some of the reaction he's gotten to this act that offended a lot of people. >> i didn't do this to do any hating on anyone, i did it to be funny. i did it to be a joke. >> reporter: an uproar. >> president obama, hey, i know i'm a clown. he's just running around acting like one, doesn't...
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all the stories you need to know out of washington. hundreds dead in egypt, but we have yet to hear from president obama. what will the white house do next? what can they do is a good question? let's go to chief correspondent john king to talk about this. we have secretary of state kerry came out yesterday condemning the violence strongly. we did hear from josh earnest, the president's spokesman. but there's criticism that we have yet to hear from the president himself. is that fair -- is that fair criticism of him at this point? >> it is because this is such a huge international story. it's also fair the the president should get a vacation. this curse happens to every president. they go off on vacation. something big happens in the country or the world and there's a day or two they can decide if they can stay on vacation. the reason this is a big issue and the reason people are saying where is the president is this is a bet gone bad by the obama administration. they wouldn't call this a coupe. they didn't like the morsi government. th
all the stories you need to know out of washington. hundreds dead in egypt, but we have yet to hear from president obama. what will the white house do next? what can they do is a good question? let's go to chief correspondent john king to talk about this. we have secretary of state kerry came out yesterday condemning the violence strongly. we did hear from josh earnest, the president's spokesman. but there's criticism that we have yet to hear from the president himself. is that fair -- is that...
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you write in this fascinating article, quote, washington should stop pretending egypt is an important player in asia fairs, pay more attention to countries that are. it should stop giving the $1.5 billion a year. it's spent better where the democrat experiment has a chance of success. are you saying that democracy is doomed there? everything we saw in tahrir square pointless? >> well, no, it was not pointless. it was a moment of hope and two years ago when that happened it was -- it brought egypt back into the center stage of asia fairs, a place where it has not been for many, many years despite what the foreign policy was. when the arab spring happened, egypt became, once again, the laboratory for this great experiment, this great idea which is a post dictatorial democracy. thanks to these generals the experiment has now failed. thanks to the jernlts and the failure of the muslim brotherhood. egypt is what? a poor country. a country with very few resources, a country that is no longer at the high table of asia fairs and -- table of arab affairs. and in short a country like yemen, tha
you write in this fascinating article, quote, washington should stop pretending egypt is an important player in asia fairs, pay more attention to countries that are. it should stop giving the $1.5 billion a year. it's spent better where the democrat experiment has a chance of success. are you saying that democracy is doomed there? everything we saw in tahrir square pointless? >> well, no, it was not pointless. it was a moment of hope and two years ago when that happened it was -- it...
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we have live team coverage overseas and washington. let's start first with arwa damon live from beirut. what's the latest you're hearing, arwa? >> reporter: those images are so hard to watch and it's absolutely horrible scenes of lifeless children, doctors trying to desperately resuscitate others. i just spoke via skype with a doctor who says he is in syria, we cannot independently verify that. he said they're struggling in primitive conditions, unable to attend to all of those who are suffering the side effects of what he is also saying was a chemical attack. they look atroprine and oxygen. another volunteer medics throughout all of this, if you'll remember, he was describing the symptoms he personally felt. he said he initially lost vision and then he lost all feeling in his body, and at one point, he collapsed. now this is not the first time that we've heard claims of chemical weapons being used in syria. it is, however, the first time that the death toll from any of these alleged attacks has been this high, hundreds reportedly were
we have live team coverage overseas and washington. let's start first with arwa damon live from beirut. what's the latest you're hearing, arwa? >> reporter: those images are so hard to watch and it's absolutely horrible scenes of lifeless children, doctors trying to desperately resuscitate others. i just spoke via skype with a doctor who says he is in syria, we cannot independently verify that. he said they're struggling in primitive conditions, unable to attend to all of those who are...
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the scene, they want to look at the cockpit flight data recorder and get that back to our lab here in washington. we have our investigator on the ground and our go team is on the way right now. >> there's debris scattered everywhere. will this be difficult for you? >> well, of course many accident scenes are difficult or in difficult terrain but our investigators are very good at what they do. they will identify the four corners of the airplane. the critical control surfaces and, again, those recorders can tell us a lot even though the aircraft is severely fragmented and burned. >> so the things that you'll be investigating is, number one, the cargo on board the plane as well, right? >> sure. and this is a cargo accident so it's a different issue. when we look at passenger aircraft, we're looking at survival factors and we'll be looking at the cargo as part of the investigation. early in the investigation, everything is on the table. we'll be looking at operations, human factors, we'll be looking at weather, we'll be looking at the aircraft itself, structures and power plants. we'll be sending a
the scene, they want to look at the cockpit flight data recorder and get that back to our lab here in washington. we have our investigator on the ground and our go team is on the way right now. >> there's debris scattered everywhere. will this be difficult for you? >> well, of course many accident scenes are difficult or in difficult terrain but our investigators are very good at what they do. they will identify the four corners of the airplane. the critical control surfaces and,...